armies quotes

   Dieu est avec tout le monde† Et, en fin de compte, il est toujours avec ceux qui ont beaucoup d'argent et de grosses arme  es. God is on everyone's side† And, in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

-Jean Anouilh
  L'Alouette ( The Lark).

And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.

- Matthew Arnold
  'Dover Beach', stanza 4.

Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood isrunning money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!

- Allen Ginsberg
  Howl and Other Poems,'Howl, II'.

When two equally matched armiesmeet, it isthemanof sorrow who wins.

-Lao-Tzu   6c
c.250  BC  Tao-te Ching, no.69. Collected in LinYutang (trans and ed)  The Wisdom of China and India (1942).

   Rule1, on page1of the book of war is: 'Do not march on Moscow'†[Rule 2] is: 'Donot gofighting withyour land armies in China.'

- BernardLaw, 1stViscount MontgomeryofAlamein
  Speech in the House of Lords, 30 May.

History shows that there are no invincible armies.

-Joseph originally Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili Stalin
  Radio broadcast, 3 Jul, announcing the declaration of war against Germany, three weeks before Hitler invaded.

'Our armies swore terribly in Flanders,'cried my uncle Toby,'but nothing to this.'

- Laurence Sterne
^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.3, ch.11.